%% date:: [[2023-07-02]], [[2023-07-12]], [[2023-11-27]] parent:: %% # [[Burnout]] Burnout is the physical, psychological, and mental exhaustion resulting from chronic stress. While there isn't a clinical diagnosis of burnout, it is characterized by one or more of the following: - a growing feeling of overwhelm, sometimes to the extent that you're left unable to do anything in the face of so much work - physical fatigue, including not sleeping or eating well - inability to react to new stimuli with joy or excitement - a lack of motivation to do things you enjoyed before  ## What does burnout look like? - [[Quiet quitting]] - ## Why do people burn out? - [[Glue work]] - Underestimating [[Overhead]] - Emotional burnout can come from an unintegrated [[Shadow|Shadow self]] - [[Productivity]] can lead to burnout when your focus is on increasing throughput and not on decreasing overall amount of time worked. ## [[Dealing with burnout]] ## Burnout and [[Overload]]